Re: devfs vs. udev

Greg KH
2003-10-07T17:55:59Z

On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 04:07:25PM +0200, Måns Rullgård wrote:
>
> I'd also like an explanation of the rationale behind the switch.
> devfs works and is stable. Why replace it with an incomplete fragile
> userspace solution? I recall reading something about the original
> author not updating devfs recently, but I can't see why that requires
> rewriting it from scratch.

There's no "rewriting from scratch" happening here. Although
Christoph's devfs changes in the 2.6 kernel tree were a major
improvement on the quality of the devfs interface (within the kernel
code), there are still unfixable devfs bugs in the code.

thanks,

greg k-h